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Join us for a free, family-friendly day of fun, stories, and discovery along the Erewash Canal! Explore hands-on activities, canal heritage, and beautiful waterside spaces. There’s something for all ages at our Heritage Open Days — come along!

Come and see behind the scenes and discover the hidden world of archives!

Join the Commonwealth War Graves commission for a free tour of Nottingham General Cemetery.

A guided walk around some of our old and new blue plaques - led by local experts Dr Peter Robinson, and Alan Dance.

On Saturday 20th September 2025, Goldsmith Street Masonic Hall, the home of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire, is opening its doors to the general public. All welcome.

Discover the Adams Building, a Grade II* Listed Building in the heart of Nottingham's Lace market, not normally open to the public.

Join us at our panel event followed by interactive audience discussion.

"Country lives" at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, explores the powerful and enduring impact the countryside has had on people. Join the curator for a guided tour of the exhibition.

Join the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for a free tour of Nottingham Southern Cemetery (Wilford Hill)

Bramcote Old Church Tower is a Grade II listed building in the heart of Bramcote Conservation area. The Tower is all that is left of a 13th century church, recently restored and renovated, thanks to a grant from National Lottery Heritage Fund.

An illustrated talk showing the change of land use and development of an industrial suburb in the 19th & 20th.

Free admission, with costumed guides, to this beautifully atmospheric Victorian house.

Join us for a free, family-friendly day of fun, stories, and discovery along the Erewash Canal! Explore hands-on activities, canal heritage, and beautiful waterside spaces. There’s something for all ages at our Heritage Open Days — come along!

Utilising this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of architecture, this free family art workshop will enable children aged 6 plus to create new artwork based on the buildings and contents of the Framework Knitters Museum.

Join us for a free, family-friendly day of fun, stories, and discovery along the Erewash Canal! Explore hands-on activities, canal heritage, and beautiful waterside spaces. There’s something for all ages at our Heritage Open Days — come along!

Against the backdrop of Nottingham City Museums & Galleries stores, items of architectural significance will be highlighted, including architectural models, all referenced to our 3D topographical models of the city centre in 1830 and 1960.

For Heritage Open Day, we’re delighted to open one of our rarely seen spaces to the public – our beautiful Civil Courtroom – for a family-friendly mock trial.

Join one of our expert interpreters for a 45-minute tour of the National Justice Museum and its unique architectural features.

Join us for a special exhibition to celebrate Heritage Open Days. Learn more about famous mathematician George Green, view photos of the mill's restoration and read the many press cuttings.

You have become trapped inside Nottinghamshire Archives! Solve the fiendish clues scattered throughout records of the past to escape - time is running out!

Join us for a fascinating talk on recent archaeological revelations from across Nottinghamshire by planning archaeologist Emily Gillott.

Join us for a guided walk around the historic houses and gardens on University Park.

Join us for a guided walk around the historic houses and gardens on University Park.

Tower tours, brass rubbing, children's activities, guided tours of church and churchyard, refreshments.

The cathedral, a masterpiece of the Gothic revival, designed by the celebrated architect, A.W.N. Pugin in the Early English style and built in the early 1840s, will be open daily. On selected days there will also be guided tours, and short talks.

Known for their textile nostalgia and authentic industrial fixtures and fixings from Nottingham's Lace Industry, explore Debbie Bryan in the heart of Nottingham’s city centre.

Join Debbie Bryan this September and create your own A6 paper stitch sampler using reproductions of salvaged Nottingham lace drawings and Cyanotype blueprints.

A talk through the rich history of Black dancers in British ballet from the 1940s to the present day.

Explore Skills and Education Group's 'never-seen-before' archive and uncover our social impact through education since 1912.

Utilising this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of architecture, this free adult art workshop will focus on the buildings and contents of the Framework Knitters Museum.

A chance to see inside the newly refurbished office of one of Nottinghams premier architects practices - CPMG Architects at 13 St Peter's Gate. This is a grade II listed building.

Discover All Saints Church, Strelley, this Heritage Open Days festival.Refreshments available or bring a picnic and enjoy the surroundings. The event this year coincides with our own Church Exhibition "Olde Strelley"

A rare chance to see ancient graffiti and understand some of the history of our medieval village church.

Four ways that St Leonard's Church is unlike any other!

See a historic railway signal box and try your hand on the levers. Learn what a signal box is for, and what the signalman did. This year we are holding signalling demonstrations.

The Wollaton Walled Garden Project, sometimes referred to as the Secret Garden, is a community-led effort, coordinated by Friends of Wollaton Park, to restore the 4-acre walled garden at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, England

Enjoy a guided walk through these interesting historical allotments created in the 1840s.

Window display heritage trail highlighting Eastwood & district’s heritage. Social, architectural, cultural, economic, sporting, mining, railways.

Come and visit Gedling House a Grade II listed Georgian mansion, now a Buddhist meditation Centre. Enjoy our lovely building and grounds - we’ll have history talks, displays, meditation taster sessions, children's activities, refreshments and stalls

This year we focus on the architecture of our beautiful building! Join a tour of the museum and discover some of the quirky features, learn about pour restoration project with Pinnacle Builders and for younger historians, den building!

Mary Potter Heritage Centre - the story of an extraordinary woman with an extraordinary Mission.

Come and see the rich history & heritage of the former Gedling railway station/Youth Club now named Gedling Youth & Community Hub. See the plans for the regeneration of the building. Lots of railway and mining memorabillia on display.

Celebrate this Nottingham exhibition Counter Culture: 175 years of shopping at Boots with this free tote bag Crafternoon at Debbie Bryan.

Visit the second-largest cricket library in the world, learn about the history of the world-famous ground and the County Club, and enjoy the views from the highest grandstand. You don't need to be a cricket enthusiast to enjoy a visit!

A 16th century dovecote with 1100+ nesting boxes, built to provide fresh meat and eggs for Sir Francis Willoughby and his household. Displays include a Tudor room and information about the sale of the Wollaton Estate 100 years ago.

This iconic C17th threshing barn is now in the care of the Keyworth Conservation Area Advisory Group (CAAG). This will be the sixth time the barn has been open for the Heritage Open Days Festival.